eGranary Digital Library

The Sparkman Center initially partnered with the Widernet @UNC Project, a service project based in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2008 to develop custom portals of health information resources on the eGranary Digital Library for students and practitioners in medicine, nursing, public health, and other health-related disciplines in Zambia. The eGranary is particularly useful in many parts of Zambia and other countries due to limitations of access to the Internet either because of availability, slow speed, or high cost.

Through a partnership with VVOB Zambia, SCGH expanded its scope of the eG project beyond health sciences to include educational resources for teachers and students in Zambia. Presently, SCGH is partnering with the Peace Corps office in Zambia to assess the feasibility of solar powered eG units at 3 secondary schools with intermittent or no electricity. To learn more about this project, click on the tabs above.

Over the last 5 years, SCGH has worked with partners ranging from academic and government institutions to NGOs in the development and dissemination the eGranary Digital Library in several different countries including Zambia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Nepal and Kenya.

Activities

Development of teacher training resources with VVOB Zambia

Facilitated training and installation for 18 eGranaries in partnership with VVOB Zambia

Purchased 4 eGranaries for Colleges of Education in Zambia

Development of THET linkage and workshop

Purchased eG unit for VVOB Zimbabwe

Partnered with Lusaka's technology and innovation hub, BongoHive, to provide on the ground technical support.

Joined Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) in Ethiopia to advise e-learning strategy that included eG units

SCGH has added a significant amount of health and education related content to the eGranary such as the Khan Academy, textbooks and much more. Additionally, content developed and tested in Zambia such as Medical Aid Films, TESSA as well as the EPHTI materials which were developed in Ethiopia have also been added. To help users easily find these resources, SCGH has developed the following portals with partners in Zambia.